very true emu, also the variety of positions leads to exposure of lots of different tactics in new situations
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Aug 9, 2014
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I started playing seriously in the early '70s. Won the Atlantic Provinces Open in the late '70s. Won the Atlantic Closed in the early '80s. My CFC rating was around 2050. Played Tal to a draw in a simultaneous exhibition game in '88. Then stopped playing Chess entirely for 20 years or so, after I moved 1000 km and got a job making children's cartoons for TV (see my thread in the Off Topic forum, "My big break in show business and how I broke it"). Started playing again, on this site, exactly a year ago (August 2013). As always, they started me with a provisional rating of 1200. Gained +960 rating points in one year.
Openings are good to study enough to where you won't get blown off the board to early on. However, memorizing lines, or looking for novelties (unless you're a very strong player) isn't the way to go when you're still getting your feet wet. Try out the King's Gambit. That is always a fun opening to play as white, and having fun really is a must! I don't want to suggest any other openings, but maybe look at some of the stuff your favorite players play and see if there is anything that looks attractive to you. Just try not to be a copykat :)
Yes I have finished all the beginners study plans from this website already.
Okay... So, am I getting it right, that it would be the best to do this:
1) Start studying 1.e4 and 1.d4 most common openings;
2) See what my opponents play in their openings and try to study the openings that they play;
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Aug 10, 2014
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NaviePokoy wrote:
So, am I getting it right, that it would be the best to do this:
1) Start studying 1.e4 and 1.d4 most common openings;
2) See what my opponents play in their openings and try to study the openings that they play;
Go with #2 primarily. This is especially the case for e4 since the database will tell you the sicilian is the most common response by black but you rarely see that in under 1200 players (with good reason).
Aug 10, 2014
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#28
i would say almost the oposite is true, as demonstrated by your diagram. And i mean no offense, but both white and black played poorly in the diagram, neither one playing through standard opening principles fully
Aug 10, 2014
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#29
for black the bishop on d6 ruins the position because it blocks the queen pawn and the light squared bishop, as well as leaving g4 and g7 vulnarable. for white the queen is out early which is often bad as the rule is mostly knights then bishops then queen and both knights are sitting back and the queen pawn has yet to move. Just trying to help :)
@With_every_step:
I'm afraid I have to side with MichaelPorcelli on this one. Your post was such a violation of opening principles that I genuinely thought you meant it as a joke. You're obviously sincere about this judging by your response to criticism so may I suggest a little study on your part? If you don't know something, there's no shame in that but what you're advocating is pretty silly. A while back chess.com put together a great series of 25 courses designed to help people get on the right track with their chess. These are really well written, entirely free, and 5 of the courses are on opening principles. I sincerely think they'd help you a lot.
http://www.chess.com/blog/webmaster/free-chess-mentor-courses
I think it's important that developing players get exposed to many different sorts of middle-game positions. Which specific openings these positions come from is immaterial. One single opening, the Ruy Lopez for example, can lead to open, classical-style positions, to closed positions, to gambit positions, to careful defense or crazy counter-attacks...